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Table 5 Frequencies and percentages of research topic distributions over the 5 years

From: Learning about research and readership development in STEM education: a systematic analysis of the journal’s publications from 2014 to 2018

Research topic

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

Total

K-12 teacher and teaching

23 (15.4%)

43 (20%)

42 (20%)

3 (8.8%)

4 (7.3%)

172 (12%)

Post-sec teacher and teaching

1 (7.7%)

1 (5%)

2 (10%)

62 (17.6%)

3 (5.5%)

13 (9.2%)

K-12 learner and learning

41 (30.8%)

52 (25%)

1 (5%)

1 (2.9%)

63 (10.9%)

172 (12%)

Post-sec learner and learning

1 (7.7%)

1 (5%)

0

3 (8.8%)

82 (14.5%)

13 (9.2%)

Policy, curri., and assessment

41 (30.8%)

91 (45%)

101 (50%)

161 (47.1%)

251 (45.5%)

641 (45.1%)

Culture, social, and gender

0

0

0

43 (11.8%)

63 (10.9%)

10 (7%)

History, perspectives of STEM

1 (7.7%)

0

33 (15%)

1 (2.9%)

3 (5.5%)

8 (5.6%)

  1. 1Number one topic
  2. 2Number two topic
  3. 3Number three topic